ARGENTINA
Buenos Aires Herald

Judges reprimand priest convicted of sexual abuse for violating house arrest conditions

A court in the Buenos Aires province district of Morón ordered the arrest of priest Julio César Grassi yesterday for “failing to fulfil the conditions of his house arrest.”

The tribunal issued this ruling after the Buenos Aires province Supreme Court upheld Grassi’s 15-year prison sentence for sexually abusing a boy in his “Happy Children” foundation.

However, Morón’s general prosecutor Federico Nieva Woodgate specified that even though the ruling brings Grassi closer to jail, “it does not actually order his detention.”

‘Pedophile privileges’

Grassi maintained his innocence during the appeal and continued to live in a house across the street from the foundation, despite the conviction and additional allegations that he had abused more than a dozen children there.